and white-throated sparrows whistled from thickets. We were especially pleased to come across a band of white-crowned sparrows. This species nests far to our north, in taiga and tundra habitats.

A flock of 40 or 50 moved around the meadows ... both adults and non-breeding juveniles return to the nesting grounds. White-crowned sparrows are coming through town, foraging in many places.

Learn how to identify a Lincoln’s sparrow. Depending on season and location, sometime large flocks of white-crowned sparrows can be found at seed piles. Fox sparrows are slightly less common ...

A white-crowned sparrow alights on Thursday on a plant on the bluffs above the mouth of the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz. Depending on the season, this sparrow can be found throughout most of ...

The two autumn singers are the golden-crowned and white-crowned sparrow. The golden-crowned sparrow has the most memorable of all bird songs, with an easily distinguished melody that makes it the ...

These recordings indicate the differences in the “dialects” of two subspecies of white-crowned sparrows. The song of the Gambel’s subspecies, found in Alaska, has a buzzier quality than that ...

Franklin County: Six white-crowned sparrows on Hadley Road in Sunderland ... Hampden County: A flock of 16 ring-necked ducks on the Congamond Lakes in Southwick. Hampshire County: A Northern ...

I am guilty of a statement concerning a group of birds of our area. The statement is that these small birds are sometimes overlooked or ignored by observers (myself included) searching diligently ...

My backyard was filled with white-crowned sparrows on Mother’s Day – Sunday, May 12. That’s an exaggeration, actually. There were a dozen white-crowned sparrows in my backyard – but that ...